Just finished power, was fucking brilliant

Threads on today if you never saw it.

Threads: How the nuclear bomb drama horrified Sheffield extras - BBC

Not a worry now that the threat of nuclear war has gone 😏

2 hours ago, SatanGreavsie said:

Threads on today if you never saw it.

Threads: How the nuclear bomb drama horrified Sheffield extras - BBC

Not a worry now that the threat of nuclear war has gone 😏

Thanks. I’ll give this a watch. 

15 minutes ago, boltonboris said:

Thanks. I’ll give this a watch. 

Keep any sharp objects away mate 👍

Just done all season 4 of 

Slow Horses

not as good as the first 3 

Season 5 looks good 

14 hours ago, SatanGreavsie said:

Threads on today if you never saw it.

Threads: How the nuclear bomb drama horrified Sheffield extras - BBC

Not a worry now that the threat of nuclear war has gone 😏

Legendary film. looking forward to watching it. Not that I'll stay awake, asleep by 10.30 on the dot.

Also got Reece 'I fucking love you Gumbo' Dinsdale in it

On 09/10/2024 at 05:48, SatanGreavsie said:

Threads on today if you never saw it.

Threads: How the nuclear bomb drama horrified Sheffield extras - BBC

Not a worry now that the threat of nuclear war has gone 😏

Fuck me that would have kept you awake for weeks 

watched it last night 

i do remember bits of it 

Just watching it now for the first time. Fucking hell, it's very good innit? No wonder it caused such a furore when it was first broadcast.

31 minutes ago, Cheese said:

Just watching it now for the first time. Fucking hell, it's very good innit? No wonder it caused such a furore when it was first broadcast.

Indeed. I remember watching it as it aired and thinking "fuck".

Two quotes from the wiki page on it sum it up:

Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian called it a "masterpiece", writing: "It wasn't until I saw Threads that I found that something on screen could make me break out in a cold, shivering sweat and keep me in that condition for 20 minutes, followed by weeks of depression and anxiety".

For the horror of Threads to work, Jackson made an effort to leave some things unseen: "to let images and emotion happen in people's minds, or rather in the extensions of their imaginations".[13] He later recalled that while BBC productions would usually be followed by phone calls of congratulations from friends or colleagues immediately after airing, no such calls came after the first screening of Threads. Jackson later "realised...that people had just sat there thinking about it, in many cases not sleeping or being able to talk".

Ken's mum from Early Doors was in it, I think......

56 minutes ago, jeep said:

Ken's mum from Early Doors was in it, I think......

She is.

By fuck, it's bleak.

4 hours ago, Cheese said:

Just watching it now for the first time. Fucking hell, it's very good innit? No wonder it caused such a furore when it was first broadcast.

Where can it be watched?

24 minutes ago, Zico said:

Where can it be watched?

👁️player. Threads, just starting it myself 

On 09/10/2024 at 08:30, jayjayoghani said:

Keep any sharp objects away mate 👍

F-k me, you weren't wrong. What a grim, grim watch. I implore anybody to watch this and still say we should abandon Trident

Also mad that this could happen and yet governments still have absolutely no interest in peace. 

A really thought provoking, upsetting and dark watch. Going to have to watch a few episodes of fuckin Chucklevision or something to get my head back on

Four Kings on Amazon.

A four-parter telling the story of the golden era of British boxing.  Bruno, Lewis, Benn and Eubank.

I've never known that Lewis was such a cunt to Bruno.

It's a decent watch. 

Just this pic can cause people of a certain generation to break out in a cold sweat Was the cover of the Radio Times advertising the film!). Thankfull I was a little too young in 84 to watch it, but watched it at a film society showing at uni as there was bog all else to do that night - still terrified me.

Watched it as a 14 year old and took comfort from my dads words of wisdom, don’t worry, Devonport is such a target Plymouth will be vaporised.

9 minutes ago, green genie said:

Watched it as a 14 year old and took comfort from my dads words of wisdom, don’t worry, Devonport is such a target Plymouth will be vaporised.

And it still wouldn't change the look of the city centre 😉

Got a feeling that I saw Threads first time around but have no memory of it. Just downloaded it after seeing the comments above 

great film

not sure I can handle a second watch. 

on second thoughts, fck it. 

I own it on DVD..... 

 

Yeh, says its available for 11 months on I Player. Should be mandatory viewing, but maybe not in the Xmas run up as it'll spoil things just a little bit.  Or in fact a lot.

But then again, we've moved on in them 40 years. So in the end it's a historical piece that allows us to bask in the security and certainty we currently luxuriate in, thank goodness.................

Blimey

5 seconds in I remembered that I’d seen Threads before. I was in Sheffield 82-85

Takes me right back 40 years to Frankie GTH and ‘Two Tribes’, the tensions at the times, the anti nuclear protest on the uni campus, the genuine worry about nuclear fallout, Greenham Common protests

Great film that. Bit shonky compared to today’s productions but loved the cutaways that left stuff unsaid.

Started watching last night 

Can't believe how young Reece Dinsdale looks, and he's 25 at the time

Mind you I only ever imagine him in ID and it was another 11 years before that

Watched it last night.

its genius it’s in just how gritty and ordinary the characters are.

but by fuck it just gets more bleak and harrowing.

Love it,

5 hours ago, Zico said:

Started watching last night 

Can't believe how young Reece Dinsdale looks, and he's 25 at the time

Mind you I only ever imagine him in ID and it was another 11 years before that

I can remember years ago a young Reese Dinsdale in a film/drama where he was coerced into him and another young bloke dressing as coppers and driving around in a mk11 cavalier, don't think i saw it all the way through.

Any ideas anyone??